libshout2: shout.pc not installed

[brian.quandt@…]

lib/pkgconfig/shout.pc is missing after installing libshout2

It should be installed automatically during an make/install

This file is necessary for many other utilities to be able to know if libshout2 is installed or not, for instance this breaks installing shout2send in gstreamer unless this file is installed.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

shout.pc does get installed on my system. I don't see why it's not getting installed on yours. Set "keep_logs yes" in your macports.conf and rebuild the port ("sudo port -ns upgrade --force libshout2") and if it still doesn't have shout.pc, attach the log file to this ticket ("port logfile libshout2" will show you where it is).

[brian.quandt@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

shout.pc does get installed on my system. I don't see why it's not getting installed on yours. Set "keep_logs yes" in your macports.conf and rebuild the port ("sudo port -ns upgrade --force libshout2") and if it still doesn't have shout.pc, attach the log file to this ticket ("port logfile libshout2" will show you where it is).

Okay I should have been clear by what I mean of "install".

Brand new installs under 10.5, 10.6 OSX while they do "install" libshout2, pkgconfig/shout.pc ends up missing. I suspect this is becuase of the binary installer is missing this from it's process. Subsequent forced rebuilds (actually recompiling things) does correct this mistake.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, I've downloaded the binary packages for 10.6 and 10.7 from ​http://packages.macports.org/libshout2/ and confirmed that shout.pc is missing from them. (We don't have any binaries for 10.4 or 10.5.)

The reason appears to be this gem in libshout2's Makefile.am:

if HAVE_PKGCONFIG
  pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
  pkgconfig_DATA = shout.pc
else
  bin_SCRIPTS = shout-config
endif

So, if pkg-config is installed, then it installs shout.pc, otherwise it installs the shout-config program. That's extremely weird. Most programs always install both, or (since separate config scripts are deprecated now that pkg-config exists), just a pkg-config file.

So we need to add a port:pkgconfig dependency to the libshout2 port to get it to install shout.pc.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Fixed in r93415. Thanks for reporting the problem.